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The first sentence in the book you're reading

In late November, during a thaw, around nine in the morning, a train on the Petersburg–Warsaw railway line was approaching Petersburg at full blast.

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
 
It was just past midday, not long before the third summons to prayer, that Ammar ibn Khairan passed through the Gate of the Bells and entered the palace of Al-Fontina in Silvenes to kill the last of the khalifs of Al-Rassan.

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
 
The event that came to be known as The Pulse began at 3:03 p.m., eastern standard time, on the afternoon of October 1.
 
Aqua-The first fifty pages of that one just rocks. The ice cream truck and the ensuing chaos. Yeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhh baby.
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Oh yeah, the book I'm reading:

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known about her ever since I could remember anything at all.
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My Mortal Enemy; Willa Cather
 
"Ce livre est avant tout l'histoire d'un homme, qui vécut la plus grande partie de sa vie en Europe occidentale, durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle." (M. Houellebecq, Les particules élémentaires)

Not very good, as far as first sentences go, I guess.
 
lies said:
"Ce livre est avant tout l'histoire d'un homme, qui vécut la plus grande partie de sa vie en Europe occidentale, durant la seconde moitié du XXe siècle." (M. Houellebecq, Les particules élémentaires)

Not very good, as far as first sentences go, I guess.
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Translated from the french by Frank Wynne:

This book is principally the story of a man who lived out the greater part of his life in Western Europe, in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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All the bells in Norfolk were ringing for Elizabeth, pounding the peal into Amy's head, first the treble bell screaming out like a mad woman, and then the whole agonising, jangling sob till the great bell boomed a warning that the whole discordant carillon was about to shriek out again.

The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
 
Into the courtyard of the Moscow Institute of Economics walked a young man who was not a Russian, Nazar Chagataev.

Soul-Andrei Platonov
 
"Inevitably, there is no better way to start a description of a part of Egypt than to begin with its relationship to the River Nile."
~ Valley of the Kings by John Romer
 
i'm reading two books at the moment. or more, but i've decided to only post two sentences.

le salon ou se tenait le cardinal archeveque pour recevoir les visites avait ete revetu, sous Loius XV, de lambris de bois sculpte peints en gris clair.

-l'orme du mail, anatole france
not a great first sentence, but the book's old. the edition i have, which is the 34th, is from 1897. Interesting to think about: this book was published 27 years after Alexandre dumas died, and when rafael sabatini was 22 and probably beggining to write some of his books.

Kulwych's chortle, while no louder than the thin stream of water trickling down the cavern wall, was unmistakably mirthful.
-the eternal flame, t.a. barron
 
Possibly the cradle of mankind, the ancient land of Abyssinia, now called Ethiopia, is the birthplace of coffee.
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-Uncommon Grounds:The History of Coffee; Mark Pendergrast.
 
Ions.

I am seeing ions everywhere.

How many different boards to you post on? Btw, if that ions is you ions, you've got potential to become a writer. Good job. :)
 
All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
 
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